"PROPHECY AND HISTORY."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 185, 23 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

"PROPHECY AND HISTORY."

Extract from Cheiro's Memoirs U912), p. 82. ''lt is Britain to-day alone who lia.s the peace of the entire world in her keeping. It is only those wno, like myself, have lived for many years beneath the flags of other nations who can realise what England's power for peace really means. In a menace of war there is only one question asked: 'What will England dor' and it is on the answer to that vital question that all depends. People who do not think —and they are many—prattle of 'the greatness of ancient empires,' but no Babylon or Greece or Borne ever dreamt of the world-wide sway of modern Britain mysterious Britain! Fusion of four races—English, Irish, Welsh and Scotch—the Mother of Parliaments, and to-day the Peacemaker to all. He is a clever man who can make others work for him, but he is st:ll more clever if he can take all the credit, and at the (same time manage that the ho'pers are glad that he docs so. '

Compare the above with Genesis xii, 2 and 3: "'I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt ha a blessing; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed." . . . '•'Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation', and all the nations of the earth shall b t > blessed in him (Gen. xviii. 18), (Gen. xxii, 1«). (Gen. xxvi, 4) (Gen. xxviii, 14). "'Hie Lord will make thee the bend and not the tail: and thou shalt be above only and not beneath" (Dcut. xxviii, 13 and -14).

Extract from "Standard," December 3rck 1915: ''Before the Austrian Geographical Society, M. Gerhard Scbott, of Hamburg, recently made some humiliating confessions of Herman impotence in face of the British Navy. Ninety-live pel cent, of the German trade went through the Straits of Dover, which was completely impossible when both shores were hostile. In the Mediterranean everything was subject to the masters of Gibraltar: the Indian Ocean may be regarded as purely British : only nt the Dardanelles and Bosphorus dul power cease. Compere: "Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies" (Goncs's xxii., 17): "Let thy seed possess the gate of iho.-e that hate them'' (Gen. xxiv. 60).